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Chapter Seven
“Talking”
‘Thoughts’
I want to thank Ulyferal for being my beta-reader and giving me Feral’s female name. Also I will be adding a few characters of my own so if you want to borrow them you will have to ask first! Disclaimer: I don’t own the SWAT Kats they belong to Hanna-Barbera!
Dark clouds cover the night sky over Megakat City signaling a storm but this was no ordinary storm. In the middle of it were red clouds that spiraled like a tornado creating an opening where lightning flashed. On top of Megakat City Hall’s Clock Tower a short figure appeared wearing a purple hooded cloak. In its hand was a glowing watch signifying the return of the Pastmaster.
"Foolish mortals! Soon the dark ages shall return and this time not even those meddling SWAT Kats will stop me!" The Pastmaster said grinning evilly.
Callie Briggs yawned for the tenth time tonight all thanks to Mayor Manx who needed some paperwork done by tomorrow. Callie glanced at the clock on her desk, saw how late it was and quickly finished up. Locking her desk then her office she made for the elevator. As she crossed the lobby for the door to the parking garage she bid goodnight to the security guard. While walking to her car, Callie failed to notice the strange figure coming up behind her. She screamed as, whoever it was, snatched her around the waist and lifted her off the ground.
"Scream all you like my bride but no one will hear you." A familiar voice rumbled triumphantly.
"Pastmaster!" Callie gasped, as the ugly little gnome came in front of her.
The paws that held her were hard. She twisted a little and saw a huge shape she couldn’t really make out holding her.
"That’s right, my bride. Now the dark ages can begin once again." Pastmaster said, dragging her attention back to him.
He made a signal to whatever was holding her and they began walking, taking her to some unknown destination. ‘Not on you life!’ Callie thought angrily and squirmed her paw into her handbag. She pressed the button on her SWAT Kat communicator, hoping they would find her in time. Unknown to the Pastmaster or Callie the security guard had left his post for a bit of fresh air to stave off sleep when he saw what had happened. Knowing that this was beyond his abilities he slipped back to his desk and alerted the enforcers. At Enforcer Headquarters, Commander Steel had been alerted about the snatch and summoned Lt. Feral to his office.
"What is it, Commander?" Felina asked, she had been about to sign out for the day.
"A security guard at City Hall has just alerted us that the Pastmaster has kidnaped Ms. Briggs. I need you to get down to the crime scene and look for clues as to where the Pastmaster may have taken her." Steel ordered her
. "Yes sir! I call you as soon as I find out anything.” She said briskly preparing to leave.
"Do that!” He agreed having no intention of going to the scene himself.
Walking out of the office Felina headed for her enforcer sedan. She pulled out a special communicator and paused a moment to gather her thoughts then pressed the button. Feral was sitting on a stool watching Hackle work on a some new invention that would help katkind when suddenly her communicator in her armor went off. She jumped off her seat and ran to answer it.
"Yes, Lt. Feral?" She said quickly.
"Valkyrie, I need you at city hall. The Pastmaster has just kidnaped Ms. Briggs." Felina said urgently.
"Understood! Be right there." Feral said clicking off the communicator and beginning to put on her skin suit then body armor. Hackle came over to help her.
"What’s the problem, Commander?" Hackle asked as he snapped the armor closed for her.
"The Pastmaster just kidnaped Ms. Briggs. I need to get to city hall, fast." She said thinking to use the jet.
Hackle rubbed his head thoughtfully, " Take the megacycle it will get you there in no time."
"Are you sure?" Feral asked dubiously. "You need it plus now is the perfect time to test it." Hackle said reassuring her
. “Okay!” Feral agreed reluctantly. She walked over to one of the two megacycles and climbed aboard. The two motorcycles had some serious upgrading done on them. Both had twin engines that maximized their speed to three hundred mph. The body armor allowed the rider to handle the high speeds with ease and safety.
"Thanks, professor. I’ll try and bring it back in one piece." Feral said taking off from a hidden exit out of the lab.
Felina stood next to Ms. Brigg’s sedan. The only clues were a bunch of small stones and some claws marks in the cement. She knelt down to study the marks closer. ‘What could be strong enough to leave claw marks in cement’ She thought to herself. The claw marks led away for about three feet then just disappeared. ‘I’m getting no where. I just hope the SWAT Kats and Valkyrie have better luck.’ Felina muttered when her thoughts were interrupted by a roaring sound of something heading toward them fast.
"Hold your fire!" Felina shouted, stopping her enforcers from firing on the approaching object.
The speeding vehicle stop just an inch away from the crime scene tape. It was the ‘hero’ from the week before. She sat on a new type of motorcycle that put the cyclotron to shame. The enforcers stared at it in admiration.
"Valkyrie, what are you doing here?" Felina pretended to be annoyed and surprised.
"Just passing through when I saw you guys standing here. Just thought I’d check and see if you needed help." Feral said pleased with Felina’s acting.
Felina pretended to give grudging information on what had happened as witnessed by the security guard and sparse clues they had found. "Could he be trying to bring the dark ages back by using Ms. Briggs this time instead of the clock tower?" Feral asked thoughtfully. She found without all the pressure on her as Chief Enforcer she took more time to think more analytically.
"It could be, but how?" Felina asked.
They retreated into their own thoughts for a few minutes. Feral looked up at the clock tower and suddenly remembered something she had seen that morning on a Kat’s Eye News report about the Megakat Natural History Museum holding a special showing of a Pendant owned by Queen Callista that had been unearthed recently.
"I think I might know where the Pastmaster has gone." Feral said quickly, turning her bike on and getting ready to leave.
"I coming with you." Felina insisting as she hopped on the bike behind Feral.
"What?! No, you’re staying here!" Feral growled looking over her shoulder.
"If this leads to Ms. Briggs then I’m coming! I don’t take no for a answer." Felina snapped stubbornly.
‘Some times I wished you did.’ Feral thought to herself. "Fine, just hold on...tight!" She said unhappily before taking off.
Feral zipped past vehicles in a blur but made sure Felina didn’t let go. They reached the museum just as Dr. Abby Sinian was walking out.
"Oh, my!" Dr. Sinian exclaimed as she spotted the two she-kats.
"Why are we here?" Felina asked getting off first.
"I think I know how the Pastmaster plans to bring back the dark ages." Feral said turning off the bike, climbing off and setting the security system.
Dr. Sinian waited for the two to walk up the stairs to her. She only glanced at Felina, her attention completely captured by the metal she-kat. "Please don’t be alarm, Dr. Sinian. You may be the only one who can help us." Feral said.
"Huh! How can I help you and just who are you?" She asked surprised and curious.
"She’s the new hero in town known as Valkyrie but never mind that now. It’s the Pastmaster, he’s kidnaped Ms. Briggs again." Felina explained quickly.
"Since he doesn’t have the book of spells anymore, I suspect he might have use for the Pendant you’ve just put on display. Queen Callista was known to be able to work magic, perhaps the Pendant is magical too.” Feral said.
Dr. Sinian nodded her understanding, "You may be right but if that is true only a descendant of the Queen would be able to use it."
"But Ms. Briggs does bear a striking resemblance to Queen Callista. Is it possible that Ms. Briggs is a descendant of hers?" Feral pressed while Felina waited for the answer.
"It’s possible but such records were lost a long time a ago and we don’t know for certain the Pendant is what the Pastmaster is after. I do know he’s fixated on Ms. Briggs because of that resemblance. Apparently he had wanted to marry Queen Callista but she spurned him. He may think he’ll have a better chance with the Deputy Mayor." Dr. Sinian said thoughtfully.
"It’s just a hunch but it’s the only thing we’ve got to go on. I still think the Pendant is the target. Where is it located?” Feral asked urgently.
“It’s down the right corridor as you enter the main doors of the museum, the last room at the end.” Dr. Sinian told her.
“Okay, so we’re going to guard the Pendant and see if the Pastmaster shows?” Felina asked still thinking they were on a wild goose chase.
“Yes, it’s the best lead we’ve got...” Feral started to say as she led the way up the stairs to the museum entrance when a loud boom was heard inside.
Felina, Feral, and Dr Sinian ran the rest of the way up the stairs and into the main doors. The commotion was coming from the corridor Dr. Sinian said the Pendant was located. They ran to the room in question. Feral threw out an arm stopping Felina and the doctor.
“Stay here Felina and find out more about the Pendant from Dr. Sinian. We may need that information.” She said firmly then turned into the room.
In side she was greeted by the sight of Razor and T-Bone fighting off what appeared to be deformed stone monsters. Feral saw the Pastmaster over a case that probably held the Pendant. Beside him was another stone monster holding Ms. Briggs. Feral drew her saber sword and used the speed of the body armor to swiftly reach the stone monster to cut off its arm holding Ms. Briggs freeing her.
"What? Who are you!?" Pastmaster blurted stunned by this new metal she-kat as he witnessed her setting Briggs free.
"That’s not important! You surrendering is!" Feral said coldly still holding her saber sword threatenly.
"Fools! No one can stop the Pastmaster!" The little troll spat furiously then shot a purple light from his watch at her.
Feral grabbed Callie and jumped away in time. Pastmaster gave a cry of fury then pointed his watch to some empty knights armor, bringing them to life. T-Bone and Razor ran over to where Feral and Callie were to insure the Deputy Mayor was alright.
"Are you okay, Ms. Briggs?" Razor asked anxiously.
"Yes, thanks to her." Callie said looking at Feral
"Don’t relax yet that creep has animated some armor and they are heading for us." T-Bone warned preparing to fight.
That had everyone’s attention as the animated armor and stone monsters thundered forward to attack them.
"Attack, but don’t hurt my bride!" Pastmaster screamed, pointing at them.
"Get out of here, Ms. Briggs." Razor shouted at her as he fired his cement missiles.
"We’ll hold them while you get away." T-Bone added as he fired as well.
"Be careful, guys." Callie said turning to run.
Callie almost made it out of the room when one of stone monsters managed to grabbed her again. She screamed alerting the SWAT Kats but the monster was quickly destroyed as something white punched through the monster turning it to dust, letting Briggs drop to her feet.
"Stay close to me, Ms. Briggs." Feral warned, taking Callie’s paw and leading her away to safety
. "No! Forget the SWAT Kats just bring me back my bride!" The Pastmaster shouted.
The stone monsters and knights did as they were told ignoring the SWAT Kats and pursuing Callie and Feral. Feral had lead Callie back out into the corridor where Felina and Dr. Sinian were waiting. She signaled them to follow her as they all ran out of the museum. She had her scanner on to see if the knights or stone monsters had followed them and was relieved to see that they hadn’t yet.
"Lt. Feral take Ms. Briggs somewhere safe and where Pastmaster can’t find her." Feral said urgently while checking her scanner again to see where the enemy was and found they were rapidly heading her way.
She readied her sword just as the stone monsters burst through the doors sending steel and glass flying, the knights armor following stiffly behind them. Some of the creatures had wings and flew over toward the four of them. Dr. Sinian was stunned, she’d only seen such creatures in her text books. She ducked down as Felina protected them by firing at the circling creatures.
One of them swooped down and knocked Felina over. Feral turned to punch it but missed. The other creatures swept in slamming Sinian to the ground and snatching Briggs and carrying her off.
"Ms. Briggs!" Razor and T-Bone shouted as they rushed out the destroyed doors taking out the knights and trying to reach her.
Laughter had the SWAT Kats, Feral and Felina looking up to see the Pastmaster holding Queen Callista’s Pendant as one of the flying stone monsters held him in it’s arms with Callie being held by another nearby.
"You lose this time, SWAT Kats!" Pastmaster yelled as they flew off.
"Crud, Razor he’s getting away!" T-Bone shouted.
"Don’t worry, the Turbokat is on it’s way." Razor reassured his partner as he guided the jet to them by remote control.
While the SWAT Kats waited for their jet, Feral had run down the stairs to her motorcycle. It roared to life as she put it into gear. Wasting no time, Feral followed the Pastmaster. The sorcerer glanced over his shoulder as he heard something roaring below him. It was that strange she-kat on some type of vehicle following him.
"Foolish mortal. Does she really think she can stop me?" Pastmaster said to himself.
Feral looked up as she came closer to them drawing out her blaster. Taking careful aim at the stone creature carrying the Pastmaster, she got a target lock just as the Turbokat moved into her sights spoiling her shot. ‘Dammit!’ Feral thought holding her fire and hoping for another chance. Pastmaster snarled angrily as he lifted his watch and opened a vortex to send the SWAT Kats and the metal she-kat into the past for good.
"T-Bone, watch out! It a time vortex!" Razor shouted into his mic.
"I’m trying! But this ones too strong!" T-Bone growled as he pushed the controls to their max.
Feral skidded to a halt as she saw the time vortex appear and the SWAT Kats struggling against it. She turned around trying to get out of range but it was too late. The tornado like winds yanked the motorcycle and her up into the vortex. She hung on to the bike for dear life not knowing if she was going to live through this. The Turbokat was yanked out of sight and Feral was drawn in behind them. Callie watched in horror as the Turbokat and Valkyrie disappeared into the vortex. Moments later it snapped shut and disappeared. ‘No, it can’t be!’ Callie thought, hoping against hope the three would come back and soon.
"Now where were we, my dear? Ah, yes to get on with my plans now that there is no SWAT Kats or metal she-kat interfering." Pastmaster purred in pleasure as his winged creatures flew them to an unknown destination.
Meanwhile somewhere in the past...
Feral for the life of her couldn’t begin to describe that wild ride through the vortex. One minute she was flying through a dark roaring tunnel, the next she was blinded by bright sunlight as she began to fall to earth. As she was free falling she got a quick glimpse of trees, lots of open land and a castle in the far distance then she realized just how fast the ground was coming to meet her. Survival meant letting go of the motorcycle and engaging her flight pack . Without hesitation she did just that. She winced as her motorcycle hit the ground.
As for the SWAT Kats, T-Bone was able to regain control over the wildly spinning Turbokat at the last moment saving him and Razor from crashing into the woodlands. The journey through the vortex was a bit rough but nothing they hadn’t been through before. T-Bone then landed them safely on the ground glad that this time the Turbokat wasn’t damaged in any way.
"Nice landing, T-Bone." Razor said sighing with relief.
"Thanks, buddy." T-Bone said relaxing his tight shoulders.
Razor looked around to see where the Pastmaster had sent them this time. The place looked very familiar. Suddenly he saw something, he stared hard at it for a moment before he realized what it was he was seeing.
"T-Bone, over to the right! It’s the motorcycle Valkyrie was riding." Razor said anxiously.
"Crud! Razor, come on she could be hurt!" T-Bone said sharply opening the canopy.
Both of them jumped out of the jet and ran over to the bike fearing the worst. But as they approached they didn’t see Valkyrie anywhere. They looked further away from the crash site thinking she may have fallen off the bike in her transit through the vortex.
"Razor, you don’t think she might not have been sent along with us? She could have jumped off her bike anywhere." T-Bone asked worriedly.
"Let’s hope not! Just keep looking T-Bone." Razor said continuing to search.
"What are you two doing?" A voice asked from above. Razor and T-Bone looked up to see Valkyrie coming down by jet pack landing safely beside her vehicle. She felt a little surprised to realize the two was worried about her. It felt odd.
"You alright?" Razor asked moving closer to her.
"Yeah, I’m okay but what about my bike?" She asked.
"Well it’s banged up a bit but nothing that can’t be fixed fairly easily. If you want T-Bone and I can help you fix it." Razor offered.
"I’ll take you up on that offer." Feral said relieved, after all, she did promise the professor she would try to bring it back in one piece.
"So, Razor where do you think we are?" T-Bone asked looking around feeling as if he should remember this place.
"It looks like Queen Callista’s time." Razor said looking at a now familiar forest.
"You sure?" His partner asked looking more closely trying to see something he remembered.
"Yeah," Razor said with more certainty.
"So the little troll really did send us into the past." Feral said shocked.
"You better believe it. Hey, maybe Queen Callista could get us back home like last time." T-Bone said feeling a little more positive about their prospects.
"And maybe tell us how to stop the Pastmaster." Razor said with a growl.
"Do you two know how to find the Queen?" Feral asked feeling a little out of her depth having to rely on these two to get back home.
"Yeah, but we’ll get there faster if we take the Turbokat." T-Bone said moving toward her bike.
"Makes sense." She agreed as she joined him.
With T-Bone’s help, she got her bike into the cargo hold. Feral sat down on a jump seat the tabby pulled down and strapped herself in. T-Bone headed up the ladder for the cockpit. ‘I can’t believe this. I’m working with the SWAT Kats!’ Feral thought, shaking her head in disbelief as she felt the jet take off. It was only a couple of minutes when she felt it land again. Moments later, Razor came down and told her to stay put while they spoke with the natives since they’d been here before. She nodded in agreement.
He was up and gone again leaving her alone. Once the SWAT Kats were gone, Feral turned her attention to her motorcycle wanting to fix whatever she could. A little later, she’d finished doing all the minor repairs her mechanical skills allowed her to do. The major work would have to wait until the SWAT Kats had the time to get to it. She sighed, wiped her paws off on a handy rag and sat down again. She realized it had been quite a while since the SWAT Kats had left. "I wonder if those two have gotten into trouble." She muttered out loud.
But then she shrugged it off. The SWAT Kats had show her time and time again they could handle just about anything that came their way. Just then she heard voices, Feral increased her volume inside her helmet to pick up what the voices were saying. It was the SWAT Kats and two strangers. One was female the other male. Feral could just make out what they were saying.
"Now, my Queen. Valkyrie will not harm you or your people. She is a warrior on our side despite her odd appearance." Razor assured the female voice.
"Don’t worry Sir Razor. I trust you.” The female voice said.
"Thank you, my Queen. Okay, T-Bone open the door." Razor told his partner.
Feral stood and watched as the cargo door opened. She waited as T-Bone walked up the ramp to her. He had a serious face on.
"Maybe I shouldn’t go out." Feral said uneasily, seeing the look.
"No it’s alright, you just have to stay close to me." T-Bone said reassuring her and taking her paw.
T-Bone lead Feral down the ramp to the ground where a she-kat with blond hair, green eyes was wearing a dark ages red dress and the very Pendant Pastmaster had stolen. Her resemblance to Ms. Briggs staggered Feral. Inside her body armor her mouth gaped.
"Ms. Briggs?" She murmured in surprise. The Queen’s sharp ears caught the soft comment and turned to the cinnamon tom beside her.
"Who is this Ms. Briggs, Sir Razor? Is she your Queen?" She asked, curious.
"Well, sort of. She’s the deputy mayor of our city...uhm...she holds a position of power a little similar to yours.” Razor said trying to explain in a way the Queen could understand.
She nodded acceptance of that explanation then moved closer to T-Bone and Feral. T-Bone moved aside so that she could get a better look at Feral’s body armor. She circled Feral stopping once in a while to touch the armor.
"This armor is amazing. What do you call it, Lady Valkyrie?" She asked finally as she halted in front of Feral.
"Uh, I just call it body armor, ma’am. Um, by the way what is your name?" Feral asked hesitantly needing to be certain that this was who she’d been told they were trying to see.
"I am called Callista. I am Queen of Megalith City." The Queen answered.
‘Unbelievable!’ Feral thought, shaken. She looked around, something she hadn’t done when she first came out of the jet. She was shocked to see an honest to goodness castle. She hadn’t imagined it when she had been falling, although she really should have clued in when she saw the old fashioned clothing, odd tools used by the people who apparently were peasants and the real life knight with sword standing next to the Queen studying Feral intently with equal parts fear and curiosity. ‘Oh, god! I really am in the past!’ She thought for the first time truly afraid.
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